500th Episode Party: Guest TRAVIS SNIDER and a Giveaway to Remember!

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[SPEAKER_00]: You listen to the J-Bird watching podcast, the official podcast of J-Bird.com and fancays.com.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here is your host Craig Borden with co-host Jason Lyons and Liz McGuire.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's talk, subtradably J-Space ball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hello and good evening everybody and welcome to the wonderful 500 episode of the J-bird watching podcast I'm your host Craig Borden and with me as always my buddy Jason how we doing on the car ride but you know what it's it's a bit of a jury early after doing here in Vancouver we are headed up to Vernon for a hockey tournament and we're going to go through some some snow and some other stuff but looking forward to a weekend of watching

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[SPEAKER_01]: Watching my kid play some hockey against some of Alberta's best hockey teams and, you know, five hundred I've had a lot of people reach out and just be like, you know, I can't believe that you guys have made it to five hundred episodes It's it's a pretty cool thing that that you know that you invited me on to this a couple of years ago, and And it's just been a blast ever since, you know, get to hang out with cool people and do cool stuff, and That's pretty awesome

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yep, and for that special 500 episode, we have our best friend here, Travis Snyder, this is your third time on the show, my friend.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome back.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, glad to be a part of the 500th and a few before this.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Congratulations to all you guys.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I appreciate it, but and obviously we are going to be having Liz coming in hot here in a few minutes.

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[SPEAKER_05]: She said she was out curling after work, so I'm having some very good luck in that, and to that point, I just want to, you know, we've been having so much fun on the show over the years.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We've had some wonderful stories and Travis, I think you still have the best story.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We've actually legit like heard in the comedic ballpark here on this show with the whole Cito Gaston mustache thing.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I still see that as one of our highest rated

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[SPEAKER_05]: things on all of our social media.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Everybody loves that story and not the mention.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's just a fun by period and that's what we always have shot for here.

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[SPEAKER_05]: In the midst of your shenanigans in the major league level,

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[SPEAKER_05]: how many other goofballs will be ran into that are quite on that same level with you and the little acronyms that you've had all the years or are you just the top guy?

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, 15, 16 years.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think on every team you got a few and depending on how much you want to mess with other guys, you'll find some guys maybe didn't think had some tricks up their sleeve.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just thinking, you know, from the last year that I played to, you know, the first year that

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[SPEAKER_03]: that you have within a clubhouse, all the different cultures that are defusing in one box, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to go to battle every night with each other and trying to find ways to keep it interesting.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I was lucky to play with some real tricksters over the years and learned a lot of stuff in a young age.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Probably should have waited a few years to learn.

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[SPEAKER_05]: there it is.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So, in the midst of these fun things, how crucial is it?

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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, we just saw the Blue Jays take the, you know, this whole thing all the way through the World Series.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I saw an interview with Ernie Clement the other day by the time you play all the games that are in the regular season, 162 games, and then you play all the way through to games seven of the World Series.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You're talking over 180 baseball games.

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[SPEAKER_05]: How key is it to keep in it loose when you got that kind of

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I know fans don't like to hear the cliches, but we're doing our best not to ride the highs in the lows and to find the ways every single day to show up and put in the work but also make it fun.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think what we got to see from that team this year is a roster guys who play for each other, a coaching staff that's built a strong connection with the players.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And you see the different personalities that they have from the old guys to the young kids that the guys with experience and no experience, there was a lot of fun watching to put it all together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I found it super interesting and I'd love to get both of you takes on this because I feel like sometimes crag I mean you know we've been together a long time buddy and you are the host.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like sometimes you don't get to be able to put your two cents worth in you know sort of as as much as you think it's you know you want to get your opinion out there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I feel like the jays have really like the second the game seven was over.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They, they've looked to improve.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's the first time since I've been a fan since I've been doing this, where immediately after, you know, being eliminated, they went into some of the into a mode of trying to build.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you guys take on the two pictures that we have picked up and and what else do you guys think is coming, you know, especially with Kyle Tucker speaking of Dunedon, you know, apparently visiting the facility down in, uh,

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[SPEAKER_01]: in Florida.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so it's very interesting to me that to you point they had such a good thing going on and they haven't

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[SPEAKER_05]: As far as the Blue Jays roster, we haven't lost a lot, Jays in a year point, we're only adding those pieces to it and Dylan Seas is just one of those guys that I believe the stat was that since 2020, him and Kevin Gosman have the most strikeouts in Major League baseball period.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So that's just insanely intriguing and it seems like we're going to have the best mustache to hit the ball of pitching staff for the, you know, near foreseeable future.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's going to be

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[SPEAKER_05]: insanely cool to see what they've done, but to your point, they have went full in just like they went this whole season in on everything and they're ready to go and you have been hearing rumors even to the point where Kyle Tucker, you know, I'm not the point where he's bored the plane yet, but he was apparently down to knee and checking out the wonderful fun that is the, you know, BlueJ's spring training complex and everything like that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So very cool stuff.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Travis, what do you think of the BlueJ's

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think as a fan base, as a clubhouse anytime you see ownership willing to make those moves and solidify, you know, maybe some areas you think you can get better at, but for for a clubhouse perspective, I never played that many games, but I've talked to guys who have gone there, I've talked to coaches who have been a part of it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think the big challenge that guys face is they've never really played that deep into the off season.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So how you adjust your off season training, I think anytime you can bring in fresh bodies like they're doing with quality stuff to add to to a roster is going to only enhance the ability for this team to bounce back.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think in my limited experience up there in Toronto with ownership, they've just been waiting for this moment to be able to invest into a winner and create something that's sustainable for a fan base and the country that deserves a winner.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Liz, welcome to the party.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You have a Canadian winner.

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[SPEAKER_05]: How was curling, did you crush it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, she's on mute.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hurry hard.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hurry hard on the mute button.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I don't know what's going on Liz.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We can't hear you.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I already know hard.

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[SPEAKER_04]: There it is.

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[SPEAKER_05]: There it is.

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[SPEAKER_05]: There we go.

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[SPEAKER_06]: This is a living friend.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Sorry, I apologize for my late Travis.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I was curling events for my employment.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And it turns out that curling is really fun.

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[SPEAKER_06]: It's just like, it's a lovely sport.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's got it should be Canadian.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And you know, guys, I heard the harness that I can hurry.

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[SPEAKER_05]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So anyone else?

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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to do a little bit of the Kyle Tucker talking.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not bought into it, I get to scared, but I will add on Travis's point.

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[SPEAKER_06]: It is nice to have an ownership that is finally winning.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Last year, I was like, I hate these guys.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know what they're up to.

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[SPEAKER_06]: But now that we've got a taste of the world series, they're like, we are locked in.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And why I love this kind of, this five, is our team is quite young.

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[SPEAKER_06]: You know, our superstars are quite young.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I hope they'll all come up.

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[SPEAKER_06]: But I think this is the,

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[SPEAKER_06]: That's the same thing where I always wanted to be.

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[SPEAKER_06]: You know, I wanted to be the sexy offseason target.

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[SPEAKER_06]: It's so cool to be here.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And I think that like, I think my question back to Travis is, is that like, where do you think the jays could be next year?

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, yeah, it's a tough to make that prediction, you know, early December, but I think having had the experience, excuse me, is only going to help the younger players on that roster.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think what we saw from from top to bottom, the way guys stepped up on on the big stage in the big moment.

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[SPEAKER_03]: As a young player, who never got to play in the playoffs until later in my career, it was still a completely different experience in a regular season game.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So the fact that they have that experience under their belt, I think them, I think makes them a favorite right going in the next year to be able to build off of that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Depending on how some of these transactions work out over the next couple of months.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Can you explain a little bit about what it was like to play, post season for the first time, and how it differs from the regular season, and why you would be more seasoned having already done it?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, my first game, I was on the bench, but it was against the Cincinnati Reds and Johnny Cuido was pitching in Pittsburgh and it was blackout.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The stadium was rocking.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I was standing on the bench and I'm like looking up and I'm getting chills just talking about it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's one of those life experiences I've got a taste of it in the Rogers Center on opening night and I've never got to do it in the playoffs, but when you have a city that's pulling for you, the fan base is locked in, the energy's electric,

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[SPEAKER_03]: And you have, you know, more media around there's more responsibilities that come with it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But I think to go back to what these guys did this year, especially a lot of first year, first experience at that level, I think the combination between young players and veterans is always a mix that you want to see in a clubhouse to give those guys the best opportunity to go out.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And make the most of the moment, and not feel overwhelmed, which is very easy to do, and I experienced by first time.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That was a hell of a team you played on there that a year

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[SPEAKER_05]: Crazy guys begin that speaking about I'd have a probably a fun dugout to be into Then those are the air Was that the air clinton hurdle was still the manager?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I played for Clint every year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So we went to the Wildcard in 1314, 15.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And 13 was after a 20 plus year stretch of no winning in Pittsburgh.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And if you've ever been to Pittsburgh Steelers game, you know the fan base or a penguins game.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know the fan base is there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But we as an organization had won.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So it made it even more special to have that first opportunity for the city in 20 plus years.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And there was no let down in terms of the emotion that you could feel from the fan base in the stadium that night.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Actually it's interesting you would bring that up Travis.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I actually feel like and I've seen this so I've been As the jays, you know, did did what they did this year and I feel like there was a More more a spot like put on to the playoffs as it being the Volkswagen playoffs, you know, ever I feel like a lot of teams are talking about or a lot of

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[SPEAKER_01]: potentially get back to where they were this year, you know, and the other one is Pittsburgh's sort of like the everyone's talking about them looking like they could potentially have like a meteoric rise from where they've been for the last couple of years to potentially contending.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how much you keep up with Pittsburgh in, you know, currently, but what do your thoughts on that?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, I'm hopeful, right as a former pirate.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm hopeful as a former Blue Jam, hopeful, you know, Seattle Mariners.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I watched my childhood team Battle of the Jays, and I wouldn't believe those series I've ever watched.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think going just to the perspective of being a baseball fan and watching the playoffs this year, it was like,

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, this is it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We can all talk about how long the games and how 162 is talk to stay locked in, but people were dialed in.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And in terms of Pittsburgh, I think that the transition and leadership there in the dugout, some of the guys they brought in on the Major League staff, I hadn't followed the roster moves quite as much, but again, that's a fan base that's hungry for a winner.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I root for that clubhouse, I root for that roster, even if I don't know the guys anymore.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Because I want to see that city in the same way I root for Toronto to really get that experience to enjoy and for the players, right, to experience what winning baseball feels like in a big fan base like that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I would, I hope all the best for Pittsburgh.

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[SPEAKER_05]: They have such an embarrassment of riches right now.

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[SPEAKER_05]: They don't capitalize on the fact that Paul schemes is like, Oh, right.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That's, I'm tuning to that.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Like, what are they going to do with schemes?

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[SPEAKER_06]: What's, and then they're Paul Park is gorgeous.

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[SPEAKER_05]: it is top notch.

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[SPEAKER_05]: How was it like playing in that ballpark?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Because you do get distracted by that insanely beautiful fun that is that where that is in the city Travis or is it just one of those just nice parks that play in.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's it's my favorite in the summertime when the weather's right because the backdrop like you mentioned.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think one of the cool things former Blue Jay, AJ Burnett was my teammate there and they put the bats signal out on the the buildings in the

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[SPEAKER_03]: just a little little thing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You got the river over the outfield.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think you know, part of me tried to hit too many balls in the river while was there where maybe I should have just stayed up the middle.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But it was one of those one of those stadiums.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't get to play in prior to being a pirate and then when I got there, I was like, man, this is really cool and really enjoyed the experience there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: that's awesome.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So that was actually one of the questions that was submitted to us.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Obviously, we know where you spent your major league tenure.

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[SPEAKER_05]: As you wander around the country, played baseball through the, you know, all the levels, all these places.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Are there any places that stood out to you that were like, oh, this is a really nice place or some places you had some great stories that just had the vibe that you were looking for while you were

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'll start with Toronto.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I think it was the best kept secret in North America.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think there was a spotlight that was shining on the city, the culture, the experience for a lot of the media members and former players who got to go up there without having to worry about playing a game.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I think starting with that, I got to play Pittsburgh's a different city, but the experience there was genuine.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We kind of got to see that city grow alongside the organization.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then going through the minor league stops,

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[SPEAKER_03]: I spent too many years in Las Vegas, but I did get to see some of the suburban areas of Las Vegas, not just living life on the strip, so it's kind of cool because there are some really nice areas around there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then really, you know, I could say Omaha's a place that I never want to live in.

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[SPEAKER_03]: a full live in a few cities where it's like, you know what, it was served at its time.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And all the respect to people who love their city where they live, but, you know, we played in the field out there in Omaha where there is no stadium to block win.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I played in the coldest baseball game, my life, and the hottest baseball game all within a matter of four months, which is a pretty intense experience.

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[SPEAKER_05]: that is wild.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And that's exactly what that area the country can do to you.

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[SPEAKER_05]: But that's as crazy.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Um, tangent on that because you mentioned all the wonderful time you spent in Las Vegas with the 51s at the time.

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[SPEAKER_05]: First off, where you, I believe you were partners in teammates with Mike McCoy.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Do you have any idea how to make frequent flyer miles that gentleman had to have racked up being basically the 26th guy?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Mike was my roommate that year so it was we we were going to breakfast you know all the time on the road wake up You know you got your guys on the road you go to breakfast with and yeah Mike and I were really close that year We obviously laughed a lot at how many air miles he was rocking up and just the amount of transactions and I think It's a gotten better.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I haven't followed kind of the transaction history as as much, but it seemed what some of these guys go through in one season I know

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[SPEAKER_03]: We don't need to feel sorry for professional athletes, but that's a really tough way to live throughout a six-month stretch where you just don't really want to do it.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Man, I think the minor leagues we got to feel bad for them, because that's hard to go.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And even when you first make the majors, that's still hard to do it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I want to take a step.

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[SPEAKER_03]: facilities.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We're not what they are now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Now they have a beautiful ballpark.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean it's first class all the way around.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We were playing in a glorified convention center.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The club house was very tight knit in terms of your space and your interaction with your teammates.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But I will say, you know, I was lucky to play with a lot of good veteran guys and no Mike was a little bit old of them even though he didn't have a lot of service time.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think about Chris Woodward who's been a

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[SPEAKER_03]: Jason Lane, there was some really, really special relationships and I had a chance to develop in that city, and yeah, sure we went out with a few other guys and had our time and experience a strip and all the things that come with that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what you guys got.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess the A is like, I don't know if they're going to be called that when they move to Vegas But have you guys seen that Las Vegas has launched a thing now?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's right down on the strip and you can go and there's a 3D rendering of the new stadium Like you walk it's at a spot and maybe 10 feet by 10 feet and you walk around it and everything's Virtual you can touch on stuff and it would show you the views.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's so rad

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's a wildbark ballpark they're working on.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I think I guess Travis, you spent time in Vegas.

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[SPEAKER_06]: How do you feel about the feasibility of a long from baseball team in Vegas?

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[SPEAKER_06]: Is it baseball town?

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, that's a question.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that it will be interesting.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think if you look at the NFL experience, I have been in the stadium.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I kind of watched it as it was being built.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think you're going to attract a lot of fans from other organizations or fans of other teams that are coming into play in Vegas.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, the city of Vegas as a whole to my understanding and years I would it's blown up in terms of population and development and stuff so there are a lot of kind of suburban areas where I think you can draw build a fan base and then, you know, how many people from the Oakland experience are going to be willing to go to Vegas if they still like the organization.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think the Gold and Knights have shown that the Golden Knights fans, when they originally were going to move the team there, everyone was like, oh, the only people you're going to get are the out of towners coming to watch the game, and that's not true at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like the Vegas Gold and Knights have created their own fan base, their games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: sell out, they are, it's crazy busy down there by the stadium, and it's interesting for a, um, for a, basically an entire state that didn't know anything about hockey, they have come a sweetly bought in, um, to that team, when we went, I, I've been to a game down there that people beside me were asking me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They knew I was Canadian.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were asking me questions about the game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, this is awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is how you want a fan base to react to a new sport.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So baseball will do fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing really fails in Vegas.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, you can just keep throwing money out.

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[SPEAKER_05]: There's that whole thing.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So, I did find that some of the pictures that you were referring to here, Jason, and I'm very interested in to see what this thing looks like in real life, too, because either there's some of the models do what it's like on the outfield it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's a gold shiny glow.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's easy.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And then they, you know, they have a big model of it set up that you can actually see the inside of the ballpark.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Then you got, you know, the view of the elephant here.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, we keep in the eyes name of the elephant, all right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think it was very cool that Jason's piece.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I hope they know the different color for that roof.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's underrated.

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[SPEAKER_03]: How hard it is to see a white baseball and a great, you know, great backdrop.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, deal with clouds.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But the depth perception and the whole idea of being able to see the ball is pretty important as it is somebody trying to catch up by ball.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, well, they have this, but it looks like here at the top that it's kind of like a white background, which is, you know, worse, I remember Travis, you, you're, you played in the timeframe when you could play at the Twinky Dome in Minnesota.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Seeing a ball on that thing had it been the night.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, well, nightmares.

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[SPEAKER_03]: you're kind of running around with your like a chicken with your head cut off when you can't see the ball but you think you have an angle it's kind of like losing a ball in the sun but it's so much more uncomfortable because it's not the sun it's just this big white backdrop but I will say that's a great that's a great place to hit I really enjoyed hitting there so where was your favorite place to hit or was it playing in the middle of Minnesota?

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I think Toronto is one of my favorites.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think, again, let's be real.

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[SPEAKER_03]: If there was more of an outside element to it, we have to have the roof for all the reasons, but it's different than a Pittsburgh, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: But the ability to take batting practice in there and hitting the game, you're not dealing with elements, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: And in the ball travels pretty well there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I always enjoyed hitting in Toronto.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think

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[SPEAKER_03]: Pittsburgh again that backdrop you step out of box kind of reset you look at the buildings out there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's that's pretty cool And then you can go through the history of places like Fenway.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I got to make my debut in old Yankee Stadium, which is pretty cool But I think statistically speaking Fenway wasn't my best place to hit versus some of these other parks

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[SPEAKER_05]: And I always wondered how much of that too was, you know, you see it on TV, but from the perspective obviously being in the batter's box and everything Toronto seems to me like you would have a great view of the picture because the backdrop that you have even in the new ballpark it's got the black batter's eye, the blue wall you got some contrasting colors there where

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[SPEAKER_05]: The one that sticks out to me as the current hardest place is, like I said, outside looking in, the new Minnesota stadium has got all that green Ivy and everything in the batters.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I would feel like there's just the way to like knocks off of things.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I would have no idea how in the world I would be able to swing a bat and hit the damn thing.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It just looks like it's coming out of the green and put the pictures in.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think shadows, it's important for fans to understand how, and this is where the playoffs, I always make this argument, usually in group shots of my friends, where it's like we schedule games at such weird times, where the shadow in the backdrop or the shadow between the mound and home plate as a significant impact on the hitters ability to see the baseball, and there are stadiums like Pittsburgh, where the sun would set, and sometimes the batters I would be light, but it would be dark in the mound.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So there's a lot of weird things that can happen with the backdrops, and again, like

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[SPEAKER_03]: You're trying to see a baseball that's coming anywhere between 70 and 105 miles an hour and you don't know which way it's moving your whole, you know, depth perception and ability to pick up spin is what you're relying on as a hitter.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So these are little nuances that I think for fans to understand.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's easy to say, you know, this guy is struggling in a particular game, but oftentimes you've got to give credit to the pitcher and the elements in that situation because guys are just trying to guess what's the fastball here that I can get a swing off on.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_03]: What's your favorite date?

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[SPEAKER_06]: What's your favorite time game?

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[SPEAKER_03]: I was definitely more of a night game guy, you know, when you, when you get the body clock set at 7 o'clock and then you got to wake up, your day starts, you know, four to six hours actually earlier, usually you're not doing as much practice on the field, but I, I really appreciated the night game experience a lot more than the day game, especially if you play the night game and then you have the day game next the next day, it's a little bit harder to bounce back.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Gotcha.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We were talking about all these wonderful things of going here and there, all of this in your travels and whatnot, your post-baseball career.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I know you are traveling all over the world or at least over the United States doing what you're doing and you're coaching stuff and mentoring youth athletes.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Where are some of these places that you've been taken to in that journey?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Because like I said, I've seen all your social media stuff and everything.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It looks like you're getting around.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, last night I was in Yakimo, Washington, which is about two and a half hours east where I'm at kind of central planes kind of out there, you know, compared to the west side.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's see, I was in Austin, Texas, backed back weekends, one for the alumni of Major League Baseball Career Development Summit, which was awesome, got to connect with J.P., former BlueJ, and meets a really cool people and talk about that transition of being a baseball player, to not being a baseball

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[SPEAKER_03]: out there for a big ABCAU summit the week before and then man I got to go to South Carolina spoke at a Lutheran church down there I got to go to Brooklyn, New York and speak in a Jewish community center I've been to Springfield, Missouri again I kind of joked my wife like I wanted to retire so I didn't have to travel as much and it's much different than going on the 10 to 14 day road trips where you just don't see your family and

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[SPEAKER_03]: But it is funny how you fall into these kind of old patterns when it comes to the pre-flight routines and and just I guess there's a level of comfortability for me with travel because I've done it so much, but it's also not my goal is to be on the road for 40 or 50 weeks out of the year.

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[SPEAKER_05]: 1000% totally get you Jason, I can see the will have in a literal year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I keep forgetting that I'm going to have to force them to drive up the I-5 one of these times to Vancouver and at least show my kids how to hit once.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but yeah, I mean, I think that that, you know, one of the things, you know, that we've been able to do with this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: podcast, which I don't know that when I started on it, Liz, I'm not sure you can speak to this as well as I mean we've had a number of different guys on all with the goal of improving mindset and I think that one of the biggest things that I've learned sort of doing this and from coaching my kids and all the rest of that is you ask a kid how much of any sport be a baseball or anything is mental.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and you know your your average answer is probably 50% or 60% or more.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you ask them directly how often do you train that part?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the silence is deafening when when they they don't really know how to answer or they realize that they don't train it mentally.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean you know I like to watch a lot of the stuff that you do travel and I you know

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've got a ton of respect for you and the guys who played, who've now been able to take that and turn it into, you know, such a positive thing for so many people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, um, I mean, I think that that's part of what that, you know, having you on this episode was all about was, you know, the people who've helped us along the way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We want to be able to make sure that they realize that you realize that you affect DOS as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I mean, being able to hear the stories like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Craig and I still talk about that the first time we heard that Cito story like we're 12 years old like you were sitting there telling a couple of 12-year-olds I'd awesome story that I'll never forget so thanks for that and just I love hearing all this stuff It's get a little nostalgic on the 500 episode

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[SPEAKER_05]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I appreciate the kind of words.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll just say this.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, what you guys are accomplished right in terms of your process and sticking with it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sure there are times that weren't always easy right in this process like do we keep going and just like any journey in any career you put in a lot of work and it's good for.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You guys will celebrate that hard work.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I know your listeners are appreciative of what you pour into this thing and how it's evolved over the years And I think just platforms that we can share right and connect this human beings and have these normal conversations that You're not gonna get from a reporter in the clubhouse, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: So you guys are providing fans kind of a window into who we are as people outside of just what we do on the field and I'm grateful for that And you guys sharing your platform with them

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[SPEAKER_05]: And we love having to hear a buddy and it's like you will, like you're reading right off of the cue cards perfectly on that one because that's exactly the goal we have.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We just want to have fun.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We never wanted to be that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So that was where Ambushing people with weird questions or anything like that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We want to be able to hear the stories.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And we've had your cell phone lately.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We have been getting repeat visits from ransom all the next because I think he just loved the vibe that we have here.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And he's on next week, party people.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's a piece of beauty, you know, you get a chance to just ask him a question and let him go because he's got a lot of really good

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[SPEAKER_05]: And that here are the full reasoning why and all the stories that came along with it, perfectly.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So Travis, that's some of the fun that I actually wanted to be able to celebrate and goof around with you and then I a little bit as you're hanging out in these alumni events interacting with your old teammates and goofing around.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Are there any memories or any certain stories that you would be prevalent that you would like to share with the, you know, the collective tonight?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think, you know, no, you're good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think starting with JPR and CB, right, former Blue Jay.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's just my roommate in Spring Training for five or six years.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And we talked about before the show, living on Clearwater Beach and being young and being the big leagues and just getting stupid.

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[SPEAKER_06]: You guys in the team, you guys were the biggest guy and you knew it.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Like, let's be honest, you're you and JP.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We're talking about this so stop it my my face is already red, but now I'm blushing but you know for us I got a good story actually this is 2011 and we had a good group of young guys who liked to mess around and have a good time and I don't remember who was the ringleader in this but they decided to buy I think it was 10 mopeds so 10 different guys on our either

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[SPEAKER_03]: bought mopeds and for some reason I was all too my own heart smart enough to know that this was a dumb decision so I didn't buy the mopeds but I watched these guys pull into the parking lot the first day like they were a biker gang and it was one of the like the funniest things I've ever seen needless to say I don't remember if he was Alex or I was Alex at the time was the GM and that got asked very quickly because they're like guys what are you doing like the

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[SPEAKER_03]: board here, but I will say because we lived on Clearwater Beach Island, we would ride the scooters to dinner and funny enough, I would hop on the back of J.P.'s, you imagine two big guys on a mo pad, like we're talking dumb and dumb or style here, and we cruise up to the restaurant, and we'd sit down the bar, and these guys would take off their helmets and set it on the bar, and order their dinner.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It was just like the stuff that we did at that point was pretty funny

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[SPEAKER_03]: even though I'm sure you know ownership in the front office wasn't too happy that these guys decided to invest in a two-wheel vehicle.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, either way, I'm open at least as, you know, it's a mobile, you know.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm pushing about this.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Whatever the front office or anybody be like, no, please don't do this.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Like if you're like I'm full riding in the off season, would they, would be like, you can't be doing that.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Stop doing that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, we have a lot of, yeah, we have contract obligations, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: So there's a risk in reward if we get injured, you know, outside of training for our sport.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like there's, there's liability that falls on us right as we sign host contracts.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And again, you're trying to balance this, this whole experience of being a,

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[SPEAKER_03]: person, you know, for me, I'm 21, 22 through kind of the prime years in Clearwater Beach.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's like trying to find this balance and going through what would be my college experience and having a lot of money at the time and being able to kind of do whatever I wanted.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like there's not really a manual for that kind of thing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So kind of back to what you talked to about the, the alumni experience is it's just,

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[SPEAKER_03]: Understanding, you know, how many of these guys I met when we were so much younger and to be able to laugh at all the dumb stuff that we did and a lot of the fun stuff that we did to.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then being able to connect on a deeper level, I think that's where JP and I get to speak on the mental transition of retirement, right, we talked about it on the show and.

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[SPEAKER_03]: and just being able to have former teammates come up to me over the course of 15 or 16 years and they're like I shared a clubhouse with you and I never knew you were going through this and I was going through it too right in our own ways and I think these are the the moments where we kind of humanize the experience of all the cool stuff and the money and the things that come with being a major league baseball player but like getting down to the core.

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[SPEAKER_03]: or like we are just human beings right we've worked really hard to become great at what we do but a lot of us are struggling with this identity of how do you be a young 21 year old kid living in the big city of Toronto with with all the expectations that you have for yourself and other people and everybody's got a little bit different story when it comes to the

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[SPEAKER_03]: hierarchy or how they're career progress, but I think that's where you know for me to be able to share those stories with fans is important because again, be a fan, root for your team, you know, be the hockey fan, be obviously able to touch your thing, but understand there are human beings where in those jerseys and you know if we can warm up to you, we'll share some stories and have some fun.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Travis, what is the dumbest thing you or a teammate or anyone you know baseball has bought in their first like a couple years?

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's, yeah, Mo Pads is probably top of all this, you know, again, like there's a lot of stories out there of athletes going broke and I think there's there's spending habits or things like, you know, watches can be an investment, but I've also never bought a watch that was over $200, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: There's just certain things I think when you get to know people, you know, seeing guys walking around with, you know, full head to toe designer gear and that was never really me, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, not really my style kind of thing, but there are, you know, guys it's been a lot of money on jewelry.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Again, another thing I was never really big on.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You see no change that are put.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, no change.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I used to buy them on the beach in Mexico from the very go man 15 bucks, right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I was never somebody who's going to spend money on on the Boeing bling.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But I definitely played with some guys who, you know, they're wearing these $50,000 chains out there on the field.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm just like, I

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[SPEAKER_03]: Sure, you can afford to do it, but I just never something I can get behind for myself.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know a lot of the guys now, like, I actually just watched a thing on Chad Ojo Sinko, he had his house robbed one time and they, you know, there was this whole big deal about it and they're like, he's like, whatever thing they took was fake and they're like, they're like, yeah, yeah, it looks like it's millions and millions of dollars for the jewelry, it's worth about six grand total, everything they took and then he actually came out and made and other guys from that fall were like, yeah, most of our stuff is fake.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, watch, like, really?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So pretty good for them.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I got that song.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I thought of their action.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I thought they answered myself though.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I bought you remember the stunner shades era You were really 20.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Of course.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I bought some Dolce and Cabana stunner shades right I listened a little way and I thought it was I thought it was bad.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I had a it had rhinestone dg's on the side and I used to wear these things and I thought I look so sweet And then I finally went down to you know to a wedding down a Mexico and one of my wife's friends comes up to me Goes hey, that's nice your wife let you borrow those glasses and I kind of just looked at them like

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm you're right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I come a hundred percent that guy right now who's walking around thinking he's so cool.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, this is this 10 plus years ago, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: But and they had kind of been in the drawer for a few years.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, I'm going to pull these out again.

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[SPEAKER_03]: See if they're still cool.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And the first guy and he's one of those guys.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I walk up walk up to him and say the exact same thing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So it was that humility that I needed to then be like, What are some of these things that I thought were so cool when I was 20, 21, 22 that now I'm just like, why would you ever think that you should be wearing that type of sunglasses?

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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm sad that someone was means you what I'm happy that you got checked.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it was it was more of a playful thing, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's why I love Canadians because we can throw some jobs.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You're right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Jason, I saw some lights, man.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, but you're good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, yeah, that was the ambulance going by the other way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was going to, I was going to say that I'm going to lose you guys here as we're about to enter into the events of the north here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, um, you know, if you last want to go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But you got.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You guys can keep going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Trap, thank you so much fans on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're to have you every single time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We look forward to having you every single time we can get you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now, being any of your friends, obviously, we're looking forward to that in the coming episodes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Liz, I never met a girl who got hit in the face of the baseball that I liked more than you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cragglers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you know, we've been brothers from another mother for three years now in four years almost and yeah, we're met in actual persons and we're going to change that this year.

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[SPEAKER_05]: All that's happening.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That's that's not going to be a lingering on the two list for much longer.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We're going to make you work.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Good deal, buddy.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We help you save travels.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Stay out of the family.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm glad they got a lot of production out against right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, take it easy.

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[SPEAKER_05]: See you, buddy.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Well, Travis, Rachel, I have another question for Travis.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Well, what was your walk-ups on when you played?

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[SPEAKER_03]: I started with Lil Wayne.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'd say the longest tenured walk-out song was smells like Team Spirit by now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's good.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah, that's so good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But I definitely went through some Lil Wayne's of Drake.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Again, I tried to mix the grunt and Seattle guy with kind of the hip-hop, you know.

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[SPEAKER_06]: When I would've been seeing you, you would've been Drake or Lil Wayne.

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[SPEAKER_06]: around 20,000, maybe 11, everybody in Drake, everybody on the Toronto team except for Adam Wind for a while who had Britney Spears, no, but it's like he and like it's real I am in Britney and bitch.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Well, it was actually that slap.

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[SPEAKER_06]: So,

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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, Adam is one of the most off the beaten path, but best guys, he just pulled some stuff out.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We were like, I never would have expected you to have that as you walk out song, even knowing him personally and I spent a lot of time with Adam and his wife and his kids as we were teammates.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, good call right there because he definitely goes against the grain when it comes to some of these things you wouldn't expect.

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[SPEAKER_06]: When he played he married a Toronto girl, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, he did.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I went to their wedding and yeah, it's a beautiful couple of beautiful family great great people yeah talking about people I cared a big stick after listen to Britney Spears right man.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Well, things like this is my problem is like boys don't pick girls for their walkouts on this so when you see Adam wind you know like man you see us and when you see David Schneider with pink pony club you're like man you see us because like you know girl gyms they're important to

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I enjoy just even hearing it through the TV that the Pink Pony Club and one person joined here and that too.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Let's do fun.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Um, so I guess that and I know what was the weirdest walkup song you heard when the midst of uh while you're hanging out and dug out some of the years is something that stood out.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That was an odd ball one that was like really wait, what?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Or maybe it turned your head on some rookie that debuted in a game that you've happened to be playing on or something like that was a rain thing awkward that you remember.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I wouldn't say one sticks out in particular, I think, you know, when you consider how many Latin players there are, you're gonna hear some Latin music, we hear it all the time in the clubhouse, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I also married a next move.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm in golf in this, but there's definitely some of songs with the beats and the horns and the noises where you just kind of like, I don't know if I should rock to this or if I need to close my ears.

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[SPEAKER_03]: there's definitely a lot of country music.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of hip-hop.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Man, Colby Rasmus had the wildest one, which is like, it was Colby's most at the time was like, these good old boys talking about trucks.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And every time, Colby was like, that's Colby Rasmus, man.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Alabama threw him through.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and again, you play with guys from the south.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You hear a lot of this it's so again from a cultural standpoint.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I got to hear a lot of different music, but I wouldn't say there's one walk out somewhere is like, but I did have teammates like Kevin Malar who taught me when you're in a slump, tell me to change your walk outs on the cold as I is or, you know, something that's that's talking about.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm freezing you are right now just to to be able to make people laugh and make yourself laugh.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Um, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_06]: So they're changing other ones a lot.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, there was a prank pulled on Josh Donalds in one time.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I think it was up the game where they changed his walkups on the mub and apparently that made him very mad.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And I love him, Bob.

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[SPEAKER_06]: So give me that back.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Let's go.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I will say in a round rock in 2017, I was

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[SPEAKER_03]: On the offense early in the season when it came to the clubhouse pranks and in the Texas boys we were in Texas and and I would give I would throw shade at them being an Northwest guy and one day I came into the clubhouse in my entire locker had been removed all my stuff was removed and I had boots with spurs and like tight Wranglers and so I went out into BP like full uni with the cowboy hat and the boots and everything yep.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then that night they played, I don't know, George Strade or some country artist that I've never even listened to and is like, All right, this is, this is what makes the game fun.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Did you look good in the outfit?

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[SPEAKER_03]: That was a great one.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Now, the bigger question is, they have the sunglasses on while it just completely rock it out.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, no, don't shake a bond is by 2017.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Those were gone.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Those were gone.

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[SPEAKER_06]: He tried to say, well, when you were in a slump, what was the worship you did?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Don't we can't talk about on air?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I think the superstitions are, if I could go back and be less superstitious throughout my career, I would be.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think routines are important, but you know, there was so much anxiety for me at times when I had this routine, like I had to be out the line to stretch it a certain time.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And if I was laid, it would trigger this whole experience.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But,

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[SPEAKER_03]: To get out of the swamp, I think you find something, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever you do the night before, that works and you stick with that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I was guilty of that a lot of my career.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It could be eating the same lunch for 30 days straight.

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[SPEAKER_03]: If I was hitting right, it could be going to the same restaurant.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, just these little kind of routines that we build in, we convince ourselves sometimes is athlete, that that's the reason we're having success, which is,

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[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously, not the case, but when you play 162 games, you're always looking for something that's going to shift that energy into, like, yeah, I got this.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's go.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I think it's just honestly about finding control and ways you control something you can't.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I think for women, it's called getting bangs.

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[SPEAKER_06]: If you know, girl gets bangs all of a sudden, you got to be, are you okay?

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[SPEAKER_06]: And I know when the jays were in the world series, I should cut my hair and because I thought if I cut my hair and my baseball team could lose.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And now you're like, yeah, I mean, I got weird.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I was like, really weird about it.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And I was like, I don't know where I was like, oh, I can think it was all the baseball players being 20 times weirder.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And how, like, I see that there's a striving for control over something bigger than you in any way that you can.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I wouldn't shave and I have a horrible beard.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I can go, okay, mustache, but the beard is patchy.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's not, it's not fun to look at.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I look back at some of these pictures now with my kids.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm just like,

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'll still let it grow once in a while, but it's like I was so superstitious about if I had a hit streak, that thing is not getting touched and again, it's not any good to look at once it's grown out.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, I enjoyed the hit streaks, but I also enjoyed the day that came where I got to shave the nastiness off my face.

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[SPEAKER_06]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_06]: That's good end that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So got a fun one here from our friends in the chat other than our buddy Troy Lyons brother Lyons given us our congrats on the 500 episodes but we also have Mike B here is wondering if there was a picture that you just loved to hit against.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Kevin Floyd without a doubt, he's now part of the player's union.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I tried to convince him to come back out of retirement when I connected with him because he was a guy hit my first home run off in Toronto and then we went to the, we're talking about Minnesota earlier.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I went there and hit another home run off him in Minnesota.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think career batting average was around 700.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So he was a guy that, you know, I look forward to seeing any time we were matched up against.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_05]: haven't slowly actually was he had some really good seasons there too.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So if you were getting after them out, that's even more exciting.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So you know, it's funny, the oil central back then we used to joke, it was 88 to 92 sink or slider, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: And those guys who had a pitch, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: But they were not, you know, that division was kind of known compared to the east where you're facing these guys who are,

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[SPEAKER_03]: 93 to 98.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Now everybody throws 95 to 100.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We do see some starters who are lower than that, but I think that's where the evolution of the game always blows my mind when you sit there I even felt that the last four or five years in AAA you used to have one guy in the bullpen.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He would throw a hundred miles an hour now There's four or five guys and everybody You know pretty much a sitting 95 plus or has some kind of weird angle or release point or something that's gonna play up velocity wise

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[SPEAKER_06]: Do you think that the velocity will stop or humans create keep creating better pitching robots from just, you know, technology and trying to break.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, like when did it stop?

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[SPEAKER_03]: I never thought we'd be above 101 and now we're seeing 105.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And it's right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: When we faced Chapman early in my 10 year with the pirates, he didn't even know how to throw a breaking ball.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And now you see guys who throw 100 plots, and they know how to come in two or three pitches.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So it just makes the

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_03]: To answer your question, I am curious to see how much the human body can take, but these guys are bigger faster stronger.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The technology and the ability to train is going to a level that I don't think we would have thought was achievable 10 or 15 years ago.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So Kudos to the people and that industry and all the players out there that continue to push that that limit of what is our body capable.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's wild.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's amazing because like I said, you know, I played up into and through college and I just like the math of tools that right here to solve that this point is just almost to the point of too much and I just don't know how I'd even keep my head straight, you know.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We barely had video playing in college and in division three baseball team here in New York and not so being able to just see all these things where you can get all the internet feeds you can get space balls and the major league level know everybody's throwing it's like I did and I think that's the blue jays this year they had somebody that came in as the hitting instructor and just said get all that shit yeah what was that job is doing it if that helpful like were you did that I passed dug out when you're playing and like what's that helpful.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Again, I think anything's a tool right and it can be used and can be helpful for certain people in certain situations with with a purpose and intent behind it, but I think anything right you have this we live in a culture now in a time right where we have a wealth of information which we didn't have right for me as a kid growing up before the internet would became a real thing where you could access information now it's like you can go online and learn from you know the best in their craft it pretty much anything you want to learn from so I think for for players

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[SPEAKER_03]: And hearing, you know, that transition with the coaching staff and Toronto, I spoke with the assistant hitting coach, I'm 100, 100 meets, I think.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And we connected over the season to talk about three a because he does some offseason training stuff with youth baseball.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And just asking him the questions, right, how he worked with Kirk through this process and.

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[SPEAKER_03]: other guys on their roster where you get overloaded with this information and all these inputs when really you gotta you gotta simplify and refine the process to what works to the individual and I think that's always the greatest challenges that coaches and organizations have as we get this wealth of information that I think all has a seat at the table you have to be able to identify from an individual to individual basis how to integrate and implement that type of

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[SPEAKER_03]: I was a guy who could get overly analytical.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I also was one of the first guys excuse me, I'm majorly baseball and I carried around an iPad and filled all of his BP sessions.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I was doing that in 2014 and 2015 and then, you know, fast forward two or three years later, it was standard.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Every batting practice, there's cameras set up.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So again, there's value that you can draw from that, but it was also something that I became reliant on.

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[SPEAKER_03]: At times in my career, I remember Buck show Walter kind of made a joke to the media about how much I carry my iPad

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[SPEAKER_03]: at the time wasn't hitting very well so it's like you're always in kind of limbo of how much do I really need to go out there and prepare and then you hear a lot about guys like Shio Aotani who I don't know what his routine is with video and how he takes the analytics and filters in a way that's helpful for him but

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, he's a guy who's got a pretty consistent routine of not hitting batting practice on the field.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think when you see guys are convicted in their process and they know what they need and they have coaches around them that can buffer the external inputs that don't need to be there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's really setting up a player up for success versus overloading them with all that information.

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[SPEAKER_06]: When did you abandon the information and just go back to fundamentals?

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[SPEAKER_06]: At one point we like, nah, did it happen ever?

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[SPEAKER_03]: 20, 2009 when I got sent down to rebuild my swing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I was, again, I was guilty of being the guy who overworked and didn't work smart a lot.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And it was like my ego was was convinced that if I just took 300 swings, I would figure it out.

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[SPEAKER_03]: and sometimes you have to get to that place of exhaustion, but I remember I had the hitting coach that year in AAA when I got sent down who I had had in AA and he was a guy who really taught me how to build a routine and what what specific drills work for me and why we did them and we spent a couple of weeks in the cage.

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[SPEAKER_03]: where the drill work and everything was just it was great but then going on the game right I was stuck in my hand and unable to trust the work so he finally said don't come to the cage for a couple of days right and and just that break that mental break of grinding through mechanics right we're in deep and analytic at this point um sometimes you just have to have somebody that comes and puts a armor on you and say hey man

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[SPEAKER_03]: and it ain't the work in the case right it's you trusting your ability to go out there and just be an athlete so i think that you see that internal struggle i i would say with every athlete that you watch on tv and the ones who who perform consistently at the highest level how that ability to you know when things start to tip out a balance there they're good about getting that back on on on to balance versus a lot of us it just kind of fall and fall and fall and fall and then we hit rock bottom and now we're kind of going through this rebuild process.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's interesting.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Really, really cool stuff.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's about what works for you at like your point.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You mentioned Otani, the guy's a machine.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That's all he does, based on baseball, based on baseball, based on baseball.

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[SPEAKER_05]: But it's all about process and keeping things moving and maybe a few superstitions thrown in there, too.

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[SPEAKER_05]: But it's what it is, but that's really cool.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Liz, do you have any other questions you would like to ask before I start giving some of our last few field questions here, and I want to have some of you.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I have a question of feelings.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I have a question of feelings.

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[SPEAKER_06]: How do you feel a book show all through James, you, on media, like that?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, you know, it was such a weird transition for me going from Pittsburgh where, you know, I had a experience of cutting hurt on the dugout where they made a move to pinch it for me and I had some choice works for him in the bench coach because they decided to double steal and.

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[SPEAKER_03]: at the end of the guy got thrown out the guy who they pinched from he didn't get to hit like we as a bench in a rooted for each other yeah I said some things one upstairs changed my shoes came back down and immediately apologize and and Clint looks me go say what you said wasn't wrong but the delivery was you know he used to have a different word in that situation I'm like

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[SPEAKER_03]: 100% you're right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So we like we have built that trust in that connection and they really valued communication.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then when I went to Baltimore, I mean, Buckrell Walter has a tremendous career, right, as a manager.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But his style was so much different.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There was so much missing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There was

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[SPEAKER_03]: Just didn't know where you stood and whether it was the lineup that day or what he really thought of you in a lot of the decision making process.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I would say I was hypersensitive.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Why was there in Baltimore?

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[SPEAKER_03]: But I also sat down next to Buck during games that I didn't play and would just pick his brain and listen to him.

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[SPEAKER_03]: call out a blunt before what happened, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: So there's different styles of managing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think collectively we're seeing managers steer away from what they say right in the media because they know it's getting back to their players and that can have an impact on the culture, but there's also a lot of guys who play for Buck's shoulder that doesn't bother them.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that's where

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, each individual player is going to receive that type of information differently, but at the end of the day, I don't have any oil will towards him.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But in that moment, it was kind of like to see think on crazy because I'm doing this because this is a big reason in my mind that at the end of 2014, the second half that I had that ended up getting me traded there was built on me actually building the swings and doing the work.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Wow, realizing what is working and how to stay consistent with that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: really cool.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I love that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You had that piece to take with you, but yeah.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Sorry.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I got nothing.

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[SPEAKER_06]: No, it's my birthday.

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[SPEAKER_06]: No, like you didn't say that it was stigmatized to bring an iPad around with you.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Right?

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[SPEAKER_05]: And try really hard.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't get it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Again, but it's trying too hard at times.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that's where you know, it's the same thing we're talking about with all this information is how much do you really need, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: How much.

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[SPEAKER_03]: How much is it physical and how much is it mental or mental emotional connection that you just don't have and you see a lot of

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[SPEAKER_03]: and definitely in spring training that year when I got traded over there, there was a new experience and I was it took me until the end of spring training to finally get things to click and start to play well going into the the first month of the year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But it was again a new space, a new environment.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm trying to be who I am and you're just you get caught up worrying just like any any workplace, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: You get caught up worrying about being yourself.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think the great managers, the great cultural leaders in the game of baseball and a business or whatever sport understand that you have a collective group of individuals.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We don't want to just say everybody do whatever you want to do, but being able to let guys be themselves is important.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and everybody is different.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You've seen this even with the youngsters that you get to play with and get the, you know, I'm going to feel to get them coached up and whatever it is.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Not the same thing works for every kid and the same thing is true for every adult to that point too.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You're not going to be able to get the, you know,

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[SPEAKER_05]: He's teamwork when might get some kid going, but then somebody is okay, you got to do soft thoughts or maybe the guy who wants to play out field and just shag baseball's the whole time.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, it's just whatever it might be.

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[SPEAKER_05]: There's just those certain things that will click with whatever individual it is.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And for you, it was had the iPad with you, and I allies your swing a bunch.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So good deal.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I want to have a little fun and the episode here as we are just first things first.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I got to make sure we get the wonderful paperwork out of the way here.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, sure.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And it's like

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[SPEAKER_06]: It's just a nice hat, but the wildest thing about it is guys, it actually smells like pint.

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[SPEAKER_06]: So I'd remind you that of Christmas Eve fresh, you know, times when I wear the hat, also like, man, it's a snap back.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I put a smaller head, what with being a girl and all, and it fits great, man, it fits awesome.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And I've been getting compliments on it all week, and I guess time will tell them responsible enough to own a way to hat, but I think I can pull it off.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I know I can't and all those white panel hats that I know you had for a little bit there in Travis when they went to the flashback Fridays and everything that I get that yellow stain like in five minutes and it just never goes away.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You can't get rid of it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's so.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Um, I will say that the word for the most Wayne's world like, you know, commercial might go to you because that was like spot on.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It was almost the point where it's like, only thing people do is because they get paid here.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's not like, it's very, very fun, but anyways, on that note, I wanted to talk about our wonderful history hero for a hot minute, um, just show where we're at because

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[SPEAKER_05]: I feel like reflecting is always a good thing that you got to do and take time to be able to just know where you came from.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Be humble about it and goof around and have some fun with it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So obviously tonight celebrating our 500th look.

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[SPEAKER_05]: episode here and way too many years that a lot of my time and our wonderful partners that we found the way you and Liz and Jason and Brandon and Adam before you guys.

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[SPEAKER_05]: 500 episodes here we go with a badge and we're going to just take a walk and this is where it was the previous logo right before it was.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I like that there's a beer in it and a bird but also a basil.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and to that point that was always the bar room chat for Blue J's fans that was the whole point of having some kind of a weird logo to that point one of my friends was kind enough to make this logo.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It lasted for a very, very long time and then I was like, I don't want to have something that looked like it was ready to go on a hat.

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[SPEAKER_05]: This is where it was.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I like that.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I think I might like that one the best, which is like not the greatest logo, but I will tell you something and Travis is going to know this too.

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[SPEAKER_06]: When you're out of the sky, don't and the dome is open.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like a Friday night and the sea and tower is rocket.

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[SPEAKER_06]: There's no better place.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's beautiful.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So that was where I officially went from where we were to having a podcast.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That was the logo because I literally could make it for free So it worked out really well for a while and then this is literally where it started I do like that down in droothe.

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[SPEAKER_05]: This is my horrible handwriting and it is what it is because I was like, okay Well, what are we gonna do?

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[SPEAKER_06]: It's right just me Travis, what's your childhood team the Mariners Mariners.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_06]: You could probably draw the Mariners logo pretty okay

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[SPEAKER_03]: Not as good as that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, that's good artistry right there.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I don't have the jays logo was so tremendously hard to draw as a child.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And I yearn for like, man, I wish we were the Yankees, you know, just like.

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[SPEAKER_05]: because this whole thing started funny enough with a joke.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And at the time, we were wondering if, you know, we were ever going to get, you know, the wonderful culmination of, you know, announcing that we have a dance showman and fuck Martinez is the Blue Jay's announcing group right now.

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[SPEAKER_05]: But in 2017, it felt like a little bit of a,

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[SPEAKER_05]: Audity, you know, the team wasn't doing so good.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Pat Tabler sounded like he was phoning it in at that point as much as he's a fun guy.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It just didn't sound right.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So some of us, and we're writing at the time at jsterinal.com, we're like, why don't we just pick a game every month, and we host a show online during the game, and we can see if we can trick Blue J fans into, you know, muting the feed and coming and hanging out with us, and then it eventually after we got a little bit of a following with that,

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[SPEAKER_05]: They're like, well, why aren't you guys just doing this every week and having an actual podcast and goofing around?

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[SPEAKER_05]: And here we are, 500 episodes later.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Many, many weeks and lots of great fun and fans and all that kind of stuff.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And wonderful guests like Travis here and it's been a wonderful ride now.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So it is what it is, but I just thought it would be funny to share the culminating horrible doodling that has now gotten to the wonderful fun that we have now.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And here we are having a great time.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Not the powder blues not because I don't like the old unies but they put it the one piece run if you got a little belly the one piece just it doesn't fit the same you can't tuck it in as well.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yep, so us bigger guys didn't love those jerseys robber off definitely didn't like those.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think I got at the end of my career with the jays before I got traded.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I like those jerseys the most and they're more the old school logo and kind of print with the stencil looking, I mean the classic jay hat that I played with for most of my career I wouldn't say is my favorite of the uniforms there but in that tenure I would say the black ones we like wearing those the most too.

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[SPEAKER_05]: The black ones did pop.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I will give them that, but it was weird not seeing a ton of blue when after having the classic, you know, logo that we've been used to.

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[SPEAKER_06]: One, they dropped the word blue.

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[SPEAKER_06]: They went with the blue jays.

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[SPEAKER_06]: It was a jays, jays.

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[SPEAKER_06]: You wouldn't see blue jays anywhere in the stadium.

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[SPEAKER_06]: But like, man, when I look back on those, like, I don't hate them.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, those are, I call them sparkle jerseys because it's silver on them a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And like, man,

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[SPEAKER_06]: all of the kids and my family love those jerseys.

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[SPEAKER_06]: They're like black.

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[SPEAKER_06]: That's my nephew would say that's tough.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And I think that like, you know, when they brought the city connects back and they're black, kids like lost their brain.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I like up for them.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I love the old powder blues.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I've got to say I do own one that I never wear because it shows shadows.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Like you said, she had like various

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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I mean, I don't know, the, uh, I think for me that the worst one's ever was the muscle bird or sort of a large edge and I guess I was roughly one year.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Looks like Gucci from the Simpsons anyway.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So Travis, as you have talked out with us on the show, we wanted to make sure we were doing something fun in honor of you being a nice friend and helping us with some guests and whatever and whatnot over the last year, you hooked us up with Zach Lutz who is actually going to join us

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[SPEAKER_05]: You've baseball things like you've been chit-chatting with us on, but I want to do something fun and have some it, you know, nice way to end the joke shows on a joke and whatnot.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So we did this little thing here where we're going to just have the sports clip of the week and we're going to have it on our wonderful fun with social story here on the show.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And we have this, what I've been doing is picking a youth baseball, highlight, blooper, something fun, just great kid moment.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Never be chit-chatting.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Never mean.

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[SPEAKER_05]: never mean that's the point.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We are here to have fun on this show and only fun.

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[SPEAKER_06]: So this kid is having all kinds of he's jelly-pransially a T-Rex all the way to first base.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I've coached this level for, this is the first year I was in in T-Baw.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And it is amazing that things you'll see these little kids do in the moment, the dancing, all the playing around, like that, that's, again, we talked to parents.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's what these kids are designed to have fun.

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[SPEAKER_03]: They don't need to run the bases perfectly.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll work with them all not if we're their coaches, but just enjoy that, that vibe is awesome.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Also like, if T-Baw, not a little bit young to be like, this is the sport of baseball, I'm like, hit the ball, laugh, have fun with your friends.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think you could argue up until 10 or 12.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's not the way the system's design now, but the wake is your design is to be able to play.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I know in my childhood, I got to play a lot with my buddies in the Kola sack and at the park, and there's not a lot of kids at least in the American culture that

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[SPEAKER_03]: still have those experiences because everything is so focused on the organized sports, but again, that's a message we're trying to get out to parents is the ability to have that Sam lot type of vibe for whatever sport it is you play.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's going out on the palm right playing hockey with the people in the neighborhood.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Those are the moments that we develop skills in a place that we're not worried about mom and dad and the coaches being on top of us.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, man.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, the thing about baseball is it's cheap.

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[SPEAKER_06]: You can play it most anywhere.

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[SPEAKER_06]: One of my favorite things to do is listen, you're not going to be surprised, but I can only hit a singer.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know, maybe a hundred feet.

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[SPEAKER_06]: So it fits well in parking lots and various compact places.

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[SPEAKER_06]: So I play a game my nephew's, it's called Tiny Dingers, where they're just like, can you hit us baseballs and we'll catch them.

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[SPEAKER_06]: because it fits, again, in the parking lot next to the house.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And that's what we do.

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[SPEAKER_06]: We spend time hitting tiny dingers.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to throw the ball, hitting it, and like, what's the game?

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[SPEAKER_06]: It's a 500 up, what's the, there's like the, yeah, 500 up.

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[SPEAKER_06]: We play 500 up with my compact dingers and, um, man, it's special.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Like, even on my parents' forum, we play just in the front, in the front yard,

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[SPEAKER_06]: And I think that like that's the thing.

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[SPEAKER_06]: It's like you can just play baseball if you want to.

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[SPEAKER_06]: You can just find, find a bat, a ball and find some buds and do that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, those are most of my favorite childhood memories literally walking around the street and then this going hey guys we're going to the call the sack we're going to play baseball today.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It was, it was just grab the gang, get them together, and whatever sport we all felt like playing.

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[SPEAKER_05]: My friend Katie was the one that usually kicked all our asses, it's just how it was.

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[SPEAKER_05]: She was the one that was the most athletic on the whole street.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And to that point, it was just fun.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That was what it was supposed to be.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And that's what I love about watching these little highlights and things like that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And Travis, I can't say enough good things about what you and your team are doing at 3a athletics.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So I want to make sure you have your shameless self-promoting but your microphone is yours.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Tell everybody where to find your work and what you're up to.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so we've been focused on building out partnerships with organizations focusing on baseball and softball but how we can partner with the leadership team from the board of directors and programs help them establish a culture right that we're really trying to give to the kids and the parents and

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[SPEAKER_03]: honoring the parents in this process, as well as the coaches who put a lot of time and energy into being with these kids.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But they're underserved.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that for us is where we've really tried to focus the attention on how many organizations within reason can we partner with over the next six months to start to roll out some of this coach and parent content as well as the leadership stuff.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So check us out at www.3athletics.com.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You can follow us on social

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[SPEAKER_03]: three A athletics on basically every every platform other than X.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So that's where you can find us we'll have more information coming out here over the next month.

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[SPEAKER_03]: These things start to go live, but I'm excited, you know, as you guys have had to evolve over 500 episodes, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: There's pivots along the way, there's things you learn by doing,

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[SPEAKER_03]: at the right way and things you learn by not doing it the right way and I think that's what's exciting for any of us that are on this journey of business and how do we build a platform, how do we connect with the customer who is the person that we're trying to have an impact in the positive way on their life.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, once again you're leading up on like cue cards, but great work.

01:06:07.713 --> 01:06:08.654
[SPEAKER_05]: It's like I know you're working.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So we're gonna end the show here on one last thing and because of our wonderful new partnership with our friends here at J. Birdie makes you like I said head over to their wonderful website and everything.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We have a giveaway before next episode.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So we're going to announce the episode next Wednesday during the beginning of the show when we have our buddy Jarence Melonix will be joining us.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I have this lovely wall hanger that we are going to be giving you a quick make sure you head over to our YouTube channel hit the subscribe button anybody That's subscribing to our YouTube channel is going to be able to have a chance to win this so hit that up that is going to be the easy one and then the next one.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Because we're trying to, you know, get y'all to go to our YouTube channel, because that's where most of the chatting comes during these shows.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I have another gift that Liz and I won this actually while we were at the vlogging one day.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We did.

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[SPEAKER_05]: A job Donaldson signed autograph.

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[SPEAKER_04]: We did.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Our 500 subscribers subscriber on YouTube.

01:07:02.156 --> 01:07:05.080
[SPEAKER_05]: Because like I said, that's our new point where we're trying to push everybody to.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to give this away to one of those 500 subscribers.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, pretty good.

01:07:09.125 --> 01:07:11.108
[SPEAKER_06]: I was wearing Josh Donaldson for a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And then I hated him.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's one of the very interesting players in Blue J says that to that point.

01:07:17.741 --> 01:07:19.083
[SPEAKER_05]: He is our MVP.

01:07:19.103 --> 01:07:19.764
[SPEAKER_06]: He's our MVP.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I love to be delighted at him.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Let's go.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Good deal, Blue J's fans.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, thank you very much for tuning in.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Travis is always a pleasure having you here.

01:07:29.358 --> 01:07:31.441
[SPEAKER_05]: We cannot say enough good things about hanging out with you.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you very much for the stories.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We hope we get the chat again sometime soon.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Appreciate it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Congratulations on five hundred guys.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's awesome.

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[SPEAKER_05]: appreciate your bud.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks again, everybody.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Two and next week, we'll be having fun with Buddy Ransmo, next we'll be on the show.

01:07:46.235 --> 01:07:52.968
[SPEAKER_05]: And then Travis, this buddy Zach Loots will be on the show to talk all things youth athletics and how to get better at baseball too.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So we'll talk you soon.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Until then, as always, let's go Blue Jays.

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